Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and Google Cloud Chief Diane Greene took center stage at Dreamforce for a candid discussion on her upbringing, marriage and legendary career as a pioneer in the technology industry.

HPE Vice President Randy Meyer says the Intel Skylake Xeon based product brings the price point of high performance compute in memory database technology in the Unix workstation market down by a whopping 50- 75 percent.

The new headquarters is a six-story 233,000 square feet Aruba facility with intelligent connectivity and location aware services was built as a showcase for Aruba's mobile cloud first and intelligent edge offerings.

Archana "Archie" Deskus, former CIO of GE's Baker Hughes oilfield services business, will oversee a reduction in the number of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems from 10 to a single global system.

HPE President Antonio Neri said the move will allow HPE to focus its resources on higher margin and on growth areas of the business, including servers and storage for Tier 2 and Tier 3 cloud-based businesses.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise AI Vice President Pankaj Goyal says the new Proliant and Apollo reference architectures have significantly lowered the cost for partners and customers to get started developing AI solutions.

New HPE Global Channel Chief Paul Hunter, who replaces Denzil Samuels in the top channel job, speaks with CRN about his experience as HPE CEO Meg Whitman's chief of staff, his number one priority as he takes the helm, and the changing partner landscape.

HPE's Antonio Neri speaks with CRN about how recent changes will impact partner margins, reduction in internal sales plans from 400 to 25, the competitive landscape, and the 'massive' opportunity ahead for partners with Intelligent Edge and Project New Stack.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise President Antonio Neri said the Next restructuring - which includes dramatic changes in internal sales compensation and the launch of a channel-only sales strategy in a number of global markets - will translate into better returns for partners.

HPE CEO Meg Whitman and President Antonio Neri rolled out a number of changes as part of the company's Next restructuring designed to make the company simpler to do business with, including the reduction of internal sales compensation plans, the rollout of a channel-only sales model in a number of global markets and large cuts to the number of product configurations in its volume and value business.

In a Q&A session on the main stage of this week's 2017 Best of Breed Conference, VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger fielded questions on the company's new multi-cloud strategy, partnerships with rivals and the 'stupid idea' that you can run containers on bare-metal servers.